EVShape Up European project in Romania

Name: EVShape Up European project in Romania
Start: 2019-09-01
End: 2020-04-04
Location: Snagov, Romania

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Romania Education European Voluntary Service Education European Voluntary Service Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

ONLY FOR BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS

A4ACTION-Association for Initiatives and Continuous Development is and organization established in October 2012 that operates as follows:

on local level - in the rural area through the A4ACTION Youth Center from Ghermanesti, Snagov commune, Ilfov county.
● on regional level - by joining Ilfov County Youth Foundation and the Working Group for the Ilfov County Youth Strategy
● on national level - by joining the Council on Youth Issues organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, as well as by the membership in the VOLUM Federation
● on international level - through partnerships developed with partners from countries in the European Union and beyond.

The A4ACTION mission in to promote non-formal education and volunteering. We develop educational programs, animation programs, civic involvement programs, environmental protection programs, social protection and cultural development. Most of the programs developed by A4ACTION are carried out at the A4ACTION Youth Centre from Ghermanesti, Ilfov county. The target group is represented by children aged between 7 and 13 and youngsters aged between 14 and 35 from the rural area. From May 2015, since the foundation, until now, in the Youth Centre we developed many non-formal activities for children and for youngsters such as:
homework, storytelling, shadow theatre, comics, upcycling, outside movies, water fights, intercultural evenings, English lessons, Spanish lessons and dance, project writing courses, acilitation courses, non-formal education workshops, personal development workshops.

💼 What the programme involves

1. Administrative activities:
○ initiate, start and deploy new projects based on children’s and youngsters’ needs from Snagov community and for the communities in which our partners are involved
○ participate in A4ACTION meetings (one time per week)
○ promote the project and the association within the community

○draft new projects - all volunteers will have the possibility to be involved in a training course in which they will learn how to draft Erasmus+ projects

○ search for new international partners for A4ACTION
○ help translating the association's website into English and update new information to the site
○ organise and implement one personal project (starting with the 3rd month) based on all the competences gained in the first 3 months of the project.

2. Educational activities:

○ set up a non-formal Club that will run activities in 2 schools and 1 high school in Ilfov County (non-formal activities, French/English lessons, human right activities etc.)
○ organize and implement, together with the A4ACTION’s local volunteers the non-formal activities in A4ACTION Youth Centre (outdoor and indoor activities)
○ organize international evenings during the project where we aim to promote different cultural values from the volunteers’ origin countries.

3. Campaign to promote volunteering
○ set up an online and offline campaign in order to promote learning opportunities offered by the European Union

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation will be in a rented apartment situated in the area where activities will take place - Snagov, Ilfov County. Based on this we wanted to offer to future volunteers the possibility to easily integrate themselves in the community. Volunteers accommodation will be done in one apartment (6 persons / apartment) which will be fully equipped with all necessary utilities such as furniture, water, electricity, gas, internet network, stove, fridge and all materials needed for volunteers comfort (linens, towels, duvets, pillows, hangers, pots, etc.). The apartment will be rented in Ghermanesti village where there is A4ACTION registered office. Ghermanesti is positioned at the edge of Snagov lake near Snagov Forest (Vlasiei forests), future volunteers place, where they can settle for granted moments of reflection on lived experience

📍 About the location

Snagov’ s population is around 6,041 people, is a town located 40 km North of Bucharest in Ilfov County, Romania. According to the 2002 Census, 99.2% of the population is Romanian. The town is composed of five villages: Ciofliceni, Ghermăneşti, Snagov, Tâncăbeşti and Vlădiceasca. Snagov is a popular holiday resort, and many villas have lately been built on the shores of Snagov lake.

Our EVS flat is located in Ghermanesti, at 5 minutes far away from A4ACTION Youth Center. Even if Ghermanesti is a small village, here you will find: many shops from
where you can by your food and all the necessary stuff, pharmacy, dentist, a small clinic, gym, post office, restaurants etc. In order for you to know where you will come and how the town looks like we attached some photos for you. In these photos you can see Snagov Lake which is very famous in Romania.